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Thursday, June 15, 2006
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Panel says to let sockeye run die
June 15, 2006 in Idaho on Page A1 BOISE – A scientific panel has recommended that Snake River sockeye salmon be allowed to go extinct. The 11-member Independent Scientific Review Panel cited dams and other downstream factors as …
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June ‘06 tied for Spokane’s sixth-wettest
June 15, 2006 in City on Page A1 This month may be only halfway over, but June 2006 already is the wettest June in the past 42 years in Spokane. A steady, gentle rain on Wednesday added to …
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Cameras proposed for safer Spokane
June 15, 2006 in City on Page A1 Spokane business leaders are pushing a plan to install a video-surveillance system downtown, following a national trend that has spawned debate on whether such systems are effective and if they …
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YMCA sale up to city
June 15, 2006 in City on Page A1 The Spokane Park Board appears to have the legal power to prevent private developers from building a 150-foot-high tower in Riverfront Park. The question is: Does it have the cash?
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Rising water level swamping Boundary County farms
June 15, 2006 in Idaho on Page A1 Bonners Ferry farmer Bill Michalk has a brand new pond on his property. It is tucked neatly into a dip in his field full of high-value wheat – a crop …
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Farms inundated
June 15, 2006 in Idaho on Page A1 Bonners Ferry farmer Bill Michalk has a brand new pond on his property. It is tucked neatly into a dip in his field full of high-value wheat – a crop …
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Effort to curb hospital error believed to save 122,000
June 15, 2006 in Nation/World on Page A2 ATLANTA – Hospitals have reduced lethal mistakes and breakdowns in care to prevent the unnecessary deaths of more than 122,000 patients in the past 18 months, said leaders of an …
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Bush’s top speechwriter stepping down
June 15, 2006 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – Michael Gerson, one of President Bush’s most trusted advisers and author of nearly all of his most famous public words during the past seven years, plans to step …
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Iraq leader offers amnesty on first day of crackdown
June 15, 2006 in Nation/World on Page A3 BAGHDAD, Iraq – Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Wednesday proposed a limited amnesty to help end the Sunni Arab insurgency as part of a national reconciliation plan that al-Maliki said …
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Bush confident in U.S. elections, Iraq
June 15, 2006 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – Buoyed by his trip to Baghdad a day earlier, President Bush predicted Wednesday that the Republican Party would retain control of Congress in part because of Democrats who …
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Marine sanctuary will be largest
June 15, 2006 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – President Bush plans today to designate a marine sanctuary spanning nearly 1,400 miles of the Pacific Ocean northwest of Hawaii to Midway Atoll, creating the largest protected marine …
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Nation in brief: Alberto spawning rash of tornadoes
June 15, 2006 in Nation/World on Page A3 After splashing ashore in Florida without much punch, the remnants of Tropical Storm Alberto churned northward Wednesday, bringing much-needed rain to the Southeast but also spawning damaging tornadoes. By early …
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Raids target violent illegal immigrants
June 15, 2006 in Nation/World on Page A4 BOSTON – A swarm of federal immigration agents sped silently, headlights off, down a Boston side street early Wednesday and surrounded an apartment house. “Police! Policia! Police!” yelled Daniel Monico, …
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Guard presence ups ante for crossing U.S. border
June 15, 2006 in Nation/World on Page A4 SAN LUIS RIO COLORADO, Mexico – Smugglers in sunglasses and muscle shirts reclined on withering patches of grass in a tree-covered plaza, blending into clusters of migrants whom they offered …
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U.S. emergency care in critical condition
June 15, 2006 in Nation/World on Page A4 WASHINGTON – Emergency medical care in the United States is on the verge of collapse, with the nation’s declining number of emergency rooms dangerously overcrowded and often unable to provide …
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Bush calls Guantanamo a ‘Catch-22’
June 15, 2006 in Nation/World on Page A7 WASHINGTON – President Bush reiterated Wednesday that he’d like to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, but his administration is facing an awkward political and legal quandary over what …
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U.S. reviews deaths from stun gun use
June 15, 2006 in Nation/World on Page A10 WASHINGTON – With more than 180 deaths in recent years among suspects subdued with stun guns, the government is taking a closer look at this law enforcement phenomenon. The review …
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Government workers rush Palestinian parliament
June 15, 2006 in Nation/World on Page A11 RAMALLAH, West Bank – In the latest spasm of Palestinian chaos, angry government employees who haven’t been paid in months stormed the parliament building here Wednesday, while skirmishes between rival …
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World in brief: Dozens on bus killed by mine
June 15, 2006 in Nation/World on Page A11 A passenger bus packed with commuters and schoolchildren hit a powerful land mine in Sri Lanka today, killing at least 58 people, the army said. Military spokesman Prasad Samarasinghe blamed …
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World in brief: Two trapped as volcano erupts
June 15, 2006 in Nation/World on Page A11 Rescuers dug through volcanic debris today to reach two people trapped in an underground emergency shelter when Indonesia’s most volatile volcano erupted, nearly enveloping a village with a searing gas …
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Business in brief: Union Pacific hauls record amounts
June 15, 2006 in Business on Page A12 Union Pacific Corp. said Wednesday that mild weather helped its railroad haul a record amount of coal during the first five months of this year. The nation’s largest railroad loaded …
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Payless puts its best shoe forward
June 15, 2006 in Region on Page A12 INDEPENDENCE, Mo. — When Matt Rubel took over as chief executive of Payless ShoeSource Inc. last summer, he inherited a company a little worn down at the heel. With more …
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Vacation planning can beat high gas prices
June 15, 2006 in Region on Page A12 NEW YORK — Higher gasoline costs and steeper rates at hotels and motels may have some families worried that they won’t be able to take a vacation trip this year. …
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There’s promise at the end of this Rainbow
June 15, 2006 in Business on Page A12 Spokane’s gay and lesbian community is looking for a home. And filmmaker Denise Thomas is trying to document that search, the yearnings behind it, and the potential drawbacks in a …
